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The 61 pages that link to Empiricism, each with the reason it gives.

• Manning ClarkCompared with: Clark’s interpretive, morally charged narrative was often contrasted with more narrowly empirical historical writing.

• John McDowellCompared with: McDowell seeks an empiricism that avoids treating sensation as a non-rational Given.

• Modern philosophyRelated: Locke, Berkeley, and Hume challenged claims that reason alone secures knowledge.

• Novum OrganumNarrower topic: Bacon’s demand for observation and experiment helped strengthen empiricist approaches to natural knowledge.

• An Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingNarrower topic: Locke’s account makes experience the source of all ideas.

• IrrationalismCompared with: It offers experience, rather than non-rational insight, as reason's chief complement.

• Matter (philosophy)Compared with: Empiricists debate how far sensory evidence warrants claims about matter beyond appearances.

• Enlightenment philosophyRelated: It grounded Enlightenment accounts of knowledge in observation rather than inherited doctrine.

• Peripatetic axiomRelated: The axiom became a foundational formula for later empiricist accounts of knowledge.

• Science in classical antiquityRelated: Ancient physicians and naturalists disagreed over how much direct experience could establish.

• WolffianismCompared with: Empiricists challenged the priority Wolffianism gives to a priori reasoning.